United States Attorney Richard G. Froling of Wisconsin announced that on March 10, 61-year-old licensed dentist Scott Charmoli was charged with five counts of health care fraud and two counts of perjury, according to the US Department of Justice.…
A 7-year-old boy who started complaining of jaw pain had 526 teeth in his mouth. This was reported to CNN by a hospital in India where he was being treated. The boy was hospitalized last month due to swelling and pain near the molars in the lower ...
The California Dental Board is investigating the death of a 4-year-old boy after a procedure at a children's dental office in Oakland. On April 24th, Dong Lee underwent dental procedures at Youthful Tooth in Auckland. Relatives said that he was given two doses of anesthesia - and he stopped breathing ...
While there are a number of good dentists out there, Americans sometimes have to go through dire diagnoses to find someone they can trust. One frustrated client, after being told the diagnosis, decided to go to different dentists to confirm it. Do not believe in ...
A routine visit to the dentist of a 27-year-old man from Vancouver ended with a tumor on his arm, which turned out to be a sign of a life-threatening heart infection. According to a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the man went to the emergency room six weeks after dental ...
A group of dentists have died of a mysterious illness, and the CDC is trying to figure out why. According to their latest report, progressive lung disease has affected a group (hereinafter referred to as a cluster) of dentists and other dental professionals treated at the Virginia care center. Of…
The widening gap between rich and poor Americans is very noticeable in dentist spending. While the wealthy spend over a billion dollars a year just to make their smile whiter, millions of others rely on charity clinics and emergency rooms for treatment ...
The parents of 14-month-old Daisy Lynn Torres, who died of anesthesia while at the dentist's office, sued him, claiming that the treatment he was receiving was unnecessary and that their daughter was the victim of a "shocking scam." The girl died on March 29, 2016 ...
The California trucker died after a tooth infection spread throughout his body, writes Fox 40. Vadim Kondratyuk, 26-year-old loving husband and father of two young daughters - 2-year-old Vanessa and 11-month-old Maya. He started to complain of a toothache a few weeks ago, before coming to ...
In California, nearly 3 dozen children who underwent pulpotomy suffered from a dangerous bacterial infection. When performing a pulpotomy, dentists remove the infected pulp inside the milk tooth so that the rest of the tooth can be saved from extraction. The infection was caused by Mycobacterium abscessus, which got into the child ...